#and co dependency issues

[chaoticas-hell]

Nicky: what are you guys doing?

Neil, with a face mask and cucumbers on his eyes: having a 'self care' date

Nicky: oh can I join?

Andrew, matching Neil: what part of date do you not understand?

Nicky: but Kevin is here *points at a sleeping but matching Kevin*

Andrew: so?

Neil: we can't leave him out, he'll get lonely

Andrew: he's like our mascot.

Nicky:..........

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Joel meeting Ellie: *slams her into a wall & threatens to shoot her*

Joel five minutes later: *kills a man w/ his bare hands for threatening to shoot her*

[lazyveran]

omg i just read the Ty Lee Azula Katara situationship. Well now of course you need to elaborate on Mai. What's her relationship with Azula and Katara like? does Ty Lee have a similar thing with Zuko and Mai, as her other besties? What is wrong with Mai, bc i get the feeling you've tossed her in a salad spinner as well?

thank you so much. mai is also being whirled around in the salad spinner. miserably, might i add.

mai for me is someone is who is clinging very VERY tightly to the past, and absolutely refuses to deviate from it. ty lee, azula and zuko are her childhood friends? thats IT. thats all the friends she wants or needs. in her mind any change from that past is bad, wrong, and must be reversed back to safe, normal comfort. this is in part because she was happy and innocent and free right up until tom-tom was born - then she was the spare, seen not heard, not understood by her mother, choked into silence, captivity and an intense depressive state. tom-tom's arrival into her life is so bad that mai goes "ah yes, new people? or My People changing into something i didnt expirence before the age of 12? BAD. KILL WITH HAMMERS." and even though she does love her baby brother, she despises the circumstance he brought her. (she's far more like azula than either of them want to admit. they keep seeing glimpses of themselves in the other, like a shattered reflection of what they could have become - silent and meek, or unloved and monsterous. they never talk about it.)

the fire squad is her one and only support network, and she becomes uncomfortably co-dependant. no one else will do. no one else understands. they're comfortable, normal, the shining happy past that she wants to claw back to. she's loved by them, and understood implicity bc of their shared past. thats all she wants. so she's very, very intensely devoted to them, and especially to zuko. her and azula aren't emotional supports to each other, but they are indeed best friends. they both apprieciate each other's loyalty and stability. mai is comfortable with any change that happens around azula - or Her People - because azula is this steadfast, unmoving pillar in her life. azula values mai highly for her skill, intelligence and general disposition. they're the bitchest besties ever who murder for fun.

SO. if she literally cant handle ty lee, azula or zuko changing into something else. at all. then you can imagine her reaction to katara barrelling in and changing up the vibe of their foursome. mai is outright hostile to katara. she's irritable, grouchy, and does her utmost to pretend katara doesnt exist at all. in her mind, katara is forcing their group to change, taking azula away from their terrible little co-dependency circle. change? bad. threaten the new woman with knives. and quickly. make sure azula is apart from that new woman and back in the safe co-dependency circle. if anything changes - if azula changes - she'll turn into dust.

and on ty lee! she DOES. zuko and mai dating isnt too big a deal for her because they still pay attention to her, and the afformentioned co-dependant stability thing overrides her annoyance that they're not looking and seeing her. but if someone flirts with zuko, or mai? its over. shes throwing a tantrum, getting the person to flirt with HER instead, or flirting with zuko/mai. bc WHY is no one looking at her? helloooo???

mai and ty lee get along famously because mai hates change and people, and ty lee gets to hoard mai greedily to herself. its the perfect arrangement, she can farm all the attention she wants from mai and is guaranteed to it. and mai doesnt care about ty lee wandering off to other friendgroups because she always comes back. and it's funny, ty lee makes things not boring.

[madmanwonder]

RWBY Character Lore: Taupe White

“Name. Taupe White. Reason For Becoming Huntress: Freedom and Self-Discovery.”

— Taupe White to her future teammates

Born in the Kingdom of Mistral. Taupe White is the sole daughter of Verdant White, the enigmatic but dreaded leader of The White Lily Guild an criminal organization/cult/military group and a unknown man who rumored to be either a rogue huntsman, male gigolo, a petty criminal lord or even Marcus Black himself who catch the attention of the feared, esteemed criminal mastermind/master assassin

Her entire past is mysterious to anyone who knew her. Not even Taupe couldn’t remember most of her past outside of the basic stuff such as who is her mother and her former connection to the White Lily Guild. Taupe’s claims she was once member of the Spider until she go awol after a failed heist and been considered a traitor to the Spider and marked to death.

The mole faunus lifestyle is often harsh and dangerous for a young child of her age and skills but due to diligence, determination and luck able to survive to adulthood, though without having a few physical and mental scars that define themselves as aloofness, ruthlessness and a co-dependency to authority figures that often lead to manipulative and abusive relationships between her and the person who she coined as Commander

By the time she reached sixteen years old, she left Mistrial to Vale to better herself for a new future and life as a huntress where she met her new family and her new Commander, Jaune Arc and Team BBNT.

[toytulini]

But Also i do think. Expecting Crisp Ironed Clothes of someone in a fucking job interview is Unhinged. I think most professional dress standards are Stupid.

[moe-broey]

You know the absolute most fucked up thing. Is that Sharena really is at the center of it all. In. So many of my fucking projects.

[hearties-circus]

In all seriousness I thiiink Axel, 2, Milk would be cute :]

Getting star used to kisses

[gibbearish]

maybe this was common knowledge and ive been severely out of the loop but the fact that russel t davies is gay is kind of rocking my world rn?

[damnprecious]

you know, it's incredibly rude that my parents' cat Mauno, whom I see a few times a month and love very very much, gives me a shitton of allergies while my uncle's cat, whom I see very, very rarely (but still love very much), doesn't give me any allergies whatsoever

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

My anxiety is like one moment im doing homwork and the next my entire life is falling apart

[the-unknown-void]

Just noticed I never?? posted this??

anyway well this is based on that AU I made a short storyboard for, here. After Alice kills Mitch, Adam's the captain now and Nick's distressed silhouette in the foreground

[korinthiakos]

I think I'mma go to bed with my laptop-- my throat is just keeps getting sore and my nose runny

[cockroachgirl1997]

i was doing very poorly for a very long time until i stopped making my mood and well-being dependent on things out of my own control and instead shifted my focus towards questions like "how can i do something good for myself?" or "what will improve my situation?" or "which good things are present in my life already?"

[violet-dragongirl]

I'm getting so much closer to the standard setup in PCars 2. Just need to focus when I'm in the game, take a good break after good results, and keep improving on my consistency.

[mindfulldsliving]

Restoring Democracy: Addressing Political Co-Dependency

Political co-dependency happens when political leaders or groups rely on each other excessively. They do this to stay in power or to keep their base happy. This unhealthy relationship often leads to poor decision-making and toxic politics.

Political Co-Dependency: Breaking Free from Toxic Politics Politics today seems more toxic than ever. If you’re tired of the constant drama and unproductive bickering, you’re not alone. What drives this unhealthy environment? At the heart of it lies political co-dependency, a dynamic where opposing sides feed off each other’s extreme behaviors, creating a vicious cycle that benefits no one. This…

[imnotgrimimjustagrumpyreaper]

Started thinking too hard about my own special silly fanfic versions of pre-existing characters again and now I feel sick